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New leaders at Buckhead schools this year CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cials say is in store at Atlanta public cipal at Johns Creek High School in schools this year: Fulton County, is filling the top spot • 50,000 students are expected to at Sutton Middle; and Kara Stimpson enroll. is taking over at Morris Brandon Ele• Twenty-two new principals have mentary. been hired. Dr. Meria Carstarphan takes over • The Atlanta Classical Academy in as superintendent, in the midst of Buckhead opens as a new APS charter the school system school, offering kindealing with fallout dergarten through from the cheating eighth-grade classes. scandal. • While E. Rivers “I believe Me“I believe Meria Elementary students ria Carstarphen is the and staff will remain Carstarphen is the right right person at the for now at their temright time,” said Dis- person at the right time.” porary site, the fortrict 8 School Board mer Sutton Middle member Cynthia BrisSchool facility, con– CYNTHIA BRISCOE BROWN coe Brown at a recent struction of the new DISTRICT 8 SCHOOL BOARD Buckhead Council of E. Rivers school will MEMBER Neighborhoods meetbe completed in Deing. “We need her pascember. sion, confidence and • North Atlanabilities.” ta High School has Carstarphen has started the year a new bell time: 8:45 a.m. All other with a focus on both students and high schools start at 8:30. staff. In advance of the school system’s • APS is launching the Gifted High first day on Aug. 4, she launched an School Redesign Program, in which aggressive “Day One: Be There” camnewly designed gifted models will inpaign aimed at getting students regisclude mentorship, internship, resource tered and in class on time, citing statisseminars and directed studies. tics showing more than 5,000 students • Students in grades 3 through 12 absent from class on the first day. will have access to secure Microsoft And on July 31 she announced the Outlook email through the APS stufirst pay raise for APS employees in dent portal “My Back Pack.” Students more than five years. can use their email to share digital “Having a great school district notebooks and collaborate with teachstarts with having talented and deders and other students. icated employees, and we are com• APS students can take Advanced mitted to Atlanta Public Schools bePlacement, gifted honors and world coming one of the nation’s leading language classes through the online districts,” Carstarphen said. “I believe Atlanta Virtual Academy. the children of Atlanta deserve this • APS has created an ombudsman type of commitment.” to confidentially address student, parHere’s a look at what school offient and community issues.
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